Australia

As a boomer, I agree with much of what younger generations say. I'd also like to remind you that it was the Boomer generation who advanced a number of movements that questioned 'the establishment' and made the world less constricting: feminism, gay rights, civil rights, indigenous land rights, the Green movement and environment protection laws, broader access to higher education, to name just some. Not all people of my generation are selfish old farts. I'd say the old farts at the top of the economic ladder ARE selfish (to be polite) and I'd also add that the younger farts that lick their boots are just as selfish and seek to be where their bosses are. I'd like you to picture, for example, the potus and his band of merry warmongers and environment destroyers and you will see that most are Gen X & Y. Ditto for most big industry. Hey, just remember the Tech bros and their energy-guzzling projects, like the Data Centres and what they are costing the Earth.

Everyday people did not understand (and many still don't) that they were causing climate change. They just swallowed the consumer narrative very adeptly churned out by big polluting and health-poisoning industry and their political counterparts. I could almost guarantee that if younger generations had been born when Boomers were born, you would have done what they did.

Being a generational 'racist' does not help any of us to change this deranged, exploitative system. We must work together as much as we can for the sake of not just you but of your children who are going to face an even worse situation and for Nature which is struggling to keep the place, our home, liveable.